Re: evercookies.

2016-08-23 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 23 August 2016, Joe Zeff sent: > Assuming that somebody wanted to use DNS to set a cookie, how would > they go about it? You browse half a dozen addresses, using their DNS server, they can see all the queries coming from your IP. Somewhere amongst them is a server where th

Re: the "ls" command line

2016-08-23 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 08/23/2016 10:42 PM, Angelo Moreschini wrote: The command (...) is composed both with <*options* (-ld)> and with <*argument* "/*" or "/*/"> In my acknowledge, both the arguments of these commands ( "/*" or "/*/") refer to the _content of a directory_, and the-ld option should

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-23 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 23 August 2016, Drew Samson sent: > I built Evercookie as a proof of concept, wanting to show how web > sites are able to track users even if they delete standard cookies and > LSOs. I get really sick of these sociopaths that build and release some evil thing allegedly to p

Re: the "ls" command line

2016-08-23 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 08:42:31AM +0300, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > OK > > Thank you, I got a good explanation... > > But it is something that I yet don't understand: > > The command (...) is composed both with > > <*options* (-ld)> >and with > <*argument* "/*" or "/*/"> >

Re: the "ls" command line

2016-08-23 Thread Angelo Moreschini
OK Thank you, I got a good explanation... But it is something that I yet don't understand: The command (...) is composed both with <*options* (-ld)> and with <*argument* "/*" or "/*/"> In my acknowledge, both the arguments of these commands ( "/*" or "/*/") refer to the *cont

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-23 Thread stan
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:54:11 -0600 Drew Samson wrote: > I was admittedly slow to learn this yet once I came to realize the > overwhelming majority of their $ is made by advertisers paying them > to be white-listed it seemed to me as if the fox was guarding the > hen-house. They made a name for

Re: F24, changing Thunar (Xfce) default archive manager

2016-08-23 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 08/22/2016 06:15 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 12:31:20 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote: I prefer engrampa to xarchiver. In F22, after a couple times selecting engrampa from the right click, Thunar just started using it as the default. That has not happened in F24 (I download

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-23 Thread Drew Samson
I know you said you no longer use AdBlock Plus, but they have categorically stated that they protect against evercookies. "If the last paragraph isn’t explicit enough for you, here you go: Adblock Plus privacy protection (a.k.a. EasyPrivacy filter list) doesn’t care whether it is cookies, canva

Re: the "ls" command line

2016-08-23 Thread cs
On 23Aug2016 18:00, Markus Schönhaber wrote: what is the difference between these two commands ? ls /* and ls /*/ --- these two commands give me different output: ls -ld /* =--->list all the files inside the directory (both files and subdirectories) ls -ld /*/ =

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-23 Thread Joe Zeff
On 08/23/2016 12:20 PM, stan wrote: As Mike pointed out, it is unlikely that DNS sets a cookie, Assuming that somebody wanted to use DNS to set a cookie, how would they go about it? Your browser doesn't interact with the DNS service directly, it asks your networking to set up a connection wi

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-23 Thread Drew Samson
On 08/23/2016 12:26 PM, Mike Wright wrote: On 08/23/2016 09:32 AM, Drew Samson wrote: On 08/23/2016 10:03 AM, stan wrote: So, this brought evercookies to my attention. I noticed that even when Are you using google dns? (8.8.8.8) How would google dns go about setting an evercookie? In

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-23 Thread stan
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 10:32:22 -0600 Drew Samson wrote: > Are you using gmail? > Are you using google dns? (8.8.8.8) > Are you using google apps? chrome? earth? streetview? drive? sky? > Do you use their repository? > dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub? None of those. Deliberately. As Mi

Re: Seeking advice on router.

2016-08-23 Thread Erik P. Olsen
On 2016-08-23 at 11:37:40 Rick Stevens wrote: > On 08/23/2016 11:10 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > > Rick Stevens wrote: > >> You could download and "dnf install alien", download the unifi > >> code and > >> > >> alien -r unifi_sysvinit_all.deb > >> > >> to convert the downloaded DEB to an RPM.

Re: Seeking advice on router.

2016-08-23 Thread Rick Stevens
On 08/23/2016 11:10 AM, Todd Zullinger wrote: > Rick Stevens wrote: >> You could download and "dnf install alien", download the unifi code and >> >> alien -r unifi_sysvinit_all.deb >> >> to convert the downloaded DEB to an RPM. Then install the RPM. I can't >> absolutely guarantee it'll work, b

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-23 Thread Mike Wright
On 08/23/2016 09:32 AM, Drew Samson wrote: On 08/23/2016 10:03 AM, stan wrote: So, this brought evercookies to my attention. I noticed that even when Are you using google dns? (8.8.8.8) How would google dns go about setting an evercookie? -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.or

Re: Seeking advice on router.

2016-08-23 Thread Todd Zullinger
Rick Stevens wrote: You could download and "dnf install alien", download the unifi code and alien -r unifi_sysvinit_all.deb to convert the downloaded DEB to an RPM. Then install the RPM. I can't absolutely guarantee it'll work, but since all the software is free, why not give it a wh

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-23 Thread Drew Samson
On 08/23/2016 10:03 AM, stan wrote: So, this brought evercookies to my attention. I noticed that even when offline, there was a google cookie in my cookie directory, even though google is not whitelisted. So, I deleted it. And, lo and behold, it came back. Like that old song, "The very next

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-23 Thread stan
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 20:05:31 +0930 Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 22 August 2016, William Mattison sent: > > "evercookies" > As users, we get sick of cookies (and related shit), and disable them. > The evil bastards decide that they will not obey and make it harder > and harder to avoid

Re: the "ls" command line

2016-08-23 Thread Markus Schönhaber
> what is the difference between these two commands ? > ls /* > and > ls /*/ > > --- > these two commands give me different output: > > ls -ld /* =--->list all the files inside the directory (both files and > subdirectories) > > ls -ld /*/ =---> give me the list of

Re: Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk

2016-08-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:18:21 +0930 Tim wrote: > Surely it ought to be possible. It is possible in many other distros (like the ubuntu example I gave earlier), but once grub has done it's thing, the linux kernel needs to know how to keep going, which means loop mount and squashfs support in the in

Re: Browser Privacy

2016-08-23 Thread Drew Samson
Just about every site I look at, doesn't work (at all, or usefully) without scripting. And usually it's not just scripting from the site, but it's scripting from half a dozen or more different services, some of which will chainload more crap from yet another set of services. Even if security w

Re: Browser Privacy

2016-08-23 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 23 August 2016, Drew Samson sent: > Perhaps this will help someone in their quest for greater online > privacy and enhance their computer security. If *only* safer browsing didn't have to venture into tinfoil hat territory... But the moment you start shutting off the hazar

the "ls" command line

2016-08-23 Thread Angelo Moreschini
what is the difference between these two commands ? ls /* and ls /*/ --- these two commands give me different output: ls -ld /* =--->list all the files inside the directory (both files and subdirectories) ls -ld /*/ =---> give me the list of only the (subdirectory i

Re: Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk

2016-08-23 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 23 August 2016, Tom Horsley sent: > I mean boot the livecd ISO file directly off hard disk. Surely it ought to be possible. GRUB can do a PXE boot, that's just the OS tree from some other source. Perhaps there might be an intervening step that mounts the ISO, but lets you

Re: Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk

2016-08-23 Thread Philip Rhoades
Tom, On 2016-08-24 00:02, users-requ...@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote: Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:50:01 +1000 From: Philip Rhoades Subject: Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk To: Community support for Fedora users Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed People,

Re: Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk

2016-08-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 14:15:52 + Personal (open) wrote: > ALL Current livecds boot with grub support. Do you perhaps mean boot > from hdd (without grub or from grub to the hdd directly ? I mean boot the livecd ISO file directly off hard disk. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk

2016-08-23 Thread Personal (open)
On 23.08.2016 14:01, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:50:01 +1000 > Philip Rhoades wrote: > >> Whether I use a GRUB2 configuration to boot from the XFCE LiveCD iso > > I don't know if anyone ever tweaked fedora live cds to have > the required support to boot via grub. I know at on

Re: Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk

2016-08-23 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 23 Aug 2016 23:50:01 +1000 Philip Rhoades wrote: > Whether I use a GRUB2 configuration to boot from the XFCE LiveCD iso I don't know if anyone ever tweaked fedora live cds to have the required support to boot via grub. I know at one time I read they wouldn't work that way. I do have sever

Browser Privacy

2016-08-23 Thread Drew Samson
Hello, Perhaps this will help someone in their quest for greater online privacy and enhance their computer security. I'm simply trying to give back to the list for all the help I've received over the years. This is what I do... I use Firefox simply because it allows me to stay in control of

Booting LiveCD from the Hard Disk

2016-08-23 Thread Philip Rhoades
People, Whether I use a GRUB2 configuration to boot from the XFCE LiveCD iso or extract the files and not have to use the loopback option - I get the same problem - the boot process gets past linux and initrd and then has problems ie: [3.141117] localhost kernel: clocksource: tsc: mask:

Re: F24, changing Thunar (Xfce) default archive manager

2016-08-23 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 22 August 2016, Robert Moskowitz sent: > I prefer engrampa to xarchiver. In F22, after a couple times selecting > engrampa from the right click, Thunar just started using it as the > default. That has not happened in F24 (I download a couple lectures > each day as zips t

Re: evercookies.

2016-08-23 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 22 August 2016, William Mattison sent: > "evercookies" Oh gawd, yet another horrible thing. The creator, allegedly some privacy and security researcher is clearly anything but that, they're an evil bastard. As users, we get sick of cookies (and related shit), and disable t

Re: Dell Inspiron 17 with Fedora

2016-08-23 Thread Ian Chapman
On 20/08/16 07:35, CLOSE Dave wrote: This is just a notice for those who may care. I installed Fedora 23 on a Dell Inspiron 17 laptop. If I use the latest kernel, 4.6.6-200, the screen flickers incessantly except when the touchpad is used to move the cursor. If I use a slightly older kernel, 4.5